Henry Wallace

He squared up against a 250-pound, barely-clothed Mongol wrestler, accepted as a gift a handsome brown horse that he named Celtic, and marveled at the logic-defying contortions of a physical performer balancing herself by her teeth.

Mongolia, the middle stop of Vice President Joe Biden’s just-concluded three-nation tour of Asia, was also the lightest. It was the first visit to the country by a sitting U.S. vice president since 1944, when Franklin Roosevelt dispatched Henry Wallace as far as he could from Washington -- just before Wallace was unceremoniously dumped from the Democratic ticket in favor of Harry Truman.

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He squared up against a 250-pound, barely-clothed Mongol wrestler, accepted as a gift a handsome brown horse that he named Celtic, and marveled at the logic-defying contortions of a physical performer balancing herself by her teeth.Mongolia, the middle...